SMILING CRICKET HAIKU: 2021

31 December 2021

promatranje zvijezda

mobilnom aplikacijom

preko Mliječne staze

star gazing

across the Milky Way

with a mobile app

The Haiku Dialogue (Ad Astra – the universe)

17 December 2021

mrzli dani

posljednja jesen

iscijeđena iz lišća

frigid days

last autumn drained out

from the leaves

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Volume 5:1, Autumn/Winter 2021-22

29 October 2021

mrzla noć

svakim novim zapuhom

zatrepere zvijezde

frosty night

with each new gust

the quiver of stars

28.Samoborski haiku susreti/28th Samobor Haiku Meeting 2021

(iz zbornika/from the miscellany)

15 October 2021

s ulice

pomela lišće i ljude

bura

from the streets

swept by bora wind

leaves and people

28.Samoborski haiku susreti/28th Samobor Haiku Meeting 2021

(iz zbornika/from the miscellany)

01 October 2021

prve pčele

donose štandovima

nove boje

first bees

bringing new colours

on the market stalls

28.Samoborski haiku susreti/28th Samobor Haiku Meeting 2021

(iz zbornika/from the miscellany)

17 September 2021

ljetna nevera

odnosi kišne oblake

polje predaleko

summer storm

drives the clouds

a field too far

28.Samoborski haiku susreti/28th Samobor Haiku Meeting 2021

(iz zbornika/from the miscellany)

03 September 2021

gluha noć

ćuk priča priču psu

a pas seljanima

dead of night

an owlet tells a dog a story

and the dog the villagers

7. Susreti hrvatskih haiđina u Ivanić-Gradu /7th Croatian Haiku Meeting in Ivanić-Grad - 2020.

(pohvala/commended)

20 August 2021

uz stari kupus

bakica prodaje

svježe priče

an old lady

selling some fresh stories

with old cabbage

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2021. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2021

06 August 2021

pomokri se

po mojim nogama

jutarnja šuma

peeing

all over my feet

morning forest

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2021. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2021

23 July 2021

sustiže

njene štikle

njen miris

catching up

with her high heels

her scent

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2021. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2021

09 July 2021

zora

jata čvoraka

iscrtavaju oblake

daybreak

flocks of starlings

shape the clouds

Haiku zbornik Ludbreg 2021. / Haiku miscellany Ludbreg 2021

25 June 2021

oblaci u pokretu

i dalje stoji tako mirno

ono daleko stablo

moving clouds

even now standing so still

that tree afar

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 4:2, Spring/Summer 2021

29 May 2021

očevo odijelo

kako ga je ostavio za sobom

bez svog mirisa

father's suit

how he left it behind

without his smell

The Betty Drevniok Award 2021, Canada (Druga nagrada / Second prize)

14 May 2021

noćnu sparinu

pojačali uzdasi

znojnih tijela

night swelter

intensified by the sighs

of sweaty bodies

Časopis za haiku / Haiku Magazine IRIS International No. 6/1, 2020

16 April 2021

otkrile se zvijezde

oblak zastane

pa krene dalje

stars uncovered

a cloud hesitates

then moves on

seashores international haiku journal

Issue 6, April 2021

19 March 2021

preko grebena

ulijeva se crvenilo

novog dana

over the ridge

the redness of a new day

pouring in

“The Mamba” Journal of Africa Haiku Network, February 2021

The Mamba

08 January 2021

linije života . . .

moje ostarjele ruke

niz očeva rebra

life lines . . .

my aging hands

down father's ribs

Blo͞o Outlier Journal, Winter Issue 2020

BIOGRAPHY

DEJAN PAVLINOVIĆ was born in 1968 in Pula, Croatia, but spent part of his childhood in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Today he is an English and German teacher, part-time tour guide and member of the indie band The Chweger from Pula. He serves on the Iris haiku magazine editorial staff, and he is the founding editor of the Haiku HR Facebook page. He runs the Pula Gymnasium Haiku Club in his school and conducts haiku workshops for students and adults. He judges haiku competitions for both children and adults. He has been writing haiku since 2007. His work is featured in two Croatian haiku anthologies. His poems have been published in Croatia and abroad, awarded and commended on Croatian and international haiku competitions (Kusamakura Haiku Competition, ITOEN, Vladimir Devide Award, The Betty Drevniok Award, Mainichi Haiku Contest, Vancouver Cherry Blossom, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest, R.H. Blyth Award, Santoka Haiga Contest, Ukiah Haiku Festival, Sōka Matsubara International Haiku Contest...). Likewise, his poems have been published in various national and international haiku magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies (Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Blithe Spirit, Presence, IRIS haiku magazine, The Haiku Foundation, Chrysanthemum, Seashores, Senryu To, World Haiku Review, NHK TV Haiku Masters, Poetry Pea Podcast, A Hundred Gourds, The Asahi Shimbun, Haikuniverse, Under the Basho, The Mamba Journal, Failed Haiku, Ephemerae, Cattails, Wales Haiku Journal, Blo͞o Outlier Journal, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, My Haiku Pond, World Haiku, Scarlet Dragonfly, Sketchbook...). Pavlinović’s haiku was featured on the Mann Library Daily Haiku page of Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) during the month of April 2023. He publishes his haiku both in English and Croatian on his Smiling Cricket Haiku blog. In 2016 he published his first book, ''MLIJEČNOM STAZOM - DOWN THE MILKY WAY'', a collection of haiku poetry written in both Croatian and English (foreword and afterword by Jane Reichhold and Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, and blurbs by George Swede and Chen-ou Liu). In 2021 he published ''NEXUS HAIKU'', a co-authored and co-created bilingual collection of haiku, senryu, haiku sequences and rengay, where all poems were composed equally and collaboratively during a period of three years by Michael Dudley, Tomislav Maretić and Dejan Pavlinović. Pavlinović publishes his second solo book ''LINIJE ŽIVOTA / LIFE LINES / 生命線'' in 2024, a collection of haiku poetry written in Croatian, English and Japanese (foreword by Nina Kovačić, and blurbs by Michael Dudley and Ikuyo Yoshimura).

''MLIJEČNOM STAZOM - DOWN THE MILKY WAY'' is Pavlinović's first haiku collection and it contains 100 of his haiku poems from a period of 2007-2016, including those published, awarded and commended ones on various competitions. The book is entirely bilingual (Croatian and English) since he writes and publishes in both languages. The foreword was written by the eminent American author and theorist of haiku poetry and other short Japanese forms, Jane Reichhold. The afterword was written by Djurdja Vukelic Rozic, one of the leading poets and promoters of haiku poetry in Croatia and its wider region. Respectable and awarded authors George Swede and Chen-ou Liu contributed with their short blurbs. The book received excellent reviews, among others also in notable haiku magazines, such as BLITHE SPIRIT (the official journal of the British Haiku Society), FROGPOND (the official journal of the Haiku Society of America) and the Japanese haiku magazine SENRYU TO.

''NEXUS HAIKU'' is a co-authored and co-created bilingual (English and Croatian) collection of haiku, senryu, haiku sequences and rengay. All poems were composed equally and collaboratively during a period of three years by Michael Dudley, Tomislav Maretić and Dejan Pavlinović. Working co-operatively together on the poems created an ebb-and-flow process that allowed continual opportunities for organic expressions of complementary energies; complexities of ideas; shifts of perspectives; and juxtapositions of personal and cultural experiences, perceptions, and memories. The 120 pages of the book have been enriched with Sanela Pliško's foreword and Nina Šestanović's illustrations, as well as blurbs written by Gilles Fabre and Đurđa Vukelić Rožić. The authors of NEXUS haiku are established haiku poets whose haiku poems have been awarded and commended in many Canadian, Croatian and international competitions, and have been published in numerous national and international haiku magazines, newspapers, websites and anthologies. NEXUS haiku is the winner of the 2021 Borivoj Bukva Award for best haiku collection published in Croatia, presented by the Croatian Literary Society.

''LINIJE ŽIVOTA / LIFE LINES / 生命線'' is Pavlinović's third (second solo) collection of haiku poetry comprising 100 haiku poems, including those published, awarded, and commended in various domestic and international competitions. The book has 156 pages, and is trilingual (Croatian, English, and Japanese), with the English translations of the poems done by the author himself, as he writes and publishes in both Croatian and English, while the Japanese translations are the work of Japanese poet Ikuyo Yoshimura. The foreword was written by the distinguished Croatian haiku poet Nina Kovačić, and the book features short reviews by renowned Canadian poet Michael Dudley and translator and poet Ikuyo Yoshimura. Additional contributors include Sanela Pliško (co-editor), Matko Plovanić (cover, layout, and design), and Thierry Dubois (illustrations). The book is published by TONDAK in 2024.